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Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
[3] By 1964, sales reached one million Notes annually. CliffsNotes now exist for hundreds of works. The term "Cliff's Notes" has become a proprietary eponym for similar products. IDG Books purchased CliffsNotes in 1998 for $14.2 million. John Wiley & Sons acquired IDG Books (renamed Hungry Minds) in 2001.
The Icebound Land is the third book in the Ranger's Apprentice book series written by Australian author John Flanagan. The book was released on 30 November 2005 in Australia . Plot summary
In this book we meet six of the ten men, four of whom we already knew. McCracken is the leader of the ten men and the most dangerous. Crawlings is the most careless (and has only one eyebrow). Garrotte is muscular, with a bushy beard. Sharpe is tall and wears glasses. In this book we meet Bludgins, one of the more eccentric of the Ten Men.
First US edition (publ. Doubleday, Doran) Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928. [1] It is Huxley's longest novel, and was notably more complex and serious than his earlier fiction.
The Still Point is a 2010 novel by British author Amy Sackville. The book was Sackville's debut novel , and was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . [ 1 ] It had also earlier been nominated for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction .
The three surviving books (out of an indeterminate number, although Jonathan Powell and Niall Rudd in their translation for Oxford seem to argue that it may have been six, to bring it in line with the number in de re publica), in order, expound on Cicero's beliefs in Natural Law, recasts the religious laws of Rome (in reality a rollback to the ...
In the fifth book the antagonists are the Syren and Tertius Fume and in the sixth book Merrin Merridith and his darke domaine. In the seventh it is the two Darke ring wizards. Several other characters appear regularly in the novels, including Septimus's parents Silas and Sarah Heap, Septimus's friend Beetle, and a trader called Snorri Snorrelssen.